My Mom and Dad noticed the other day, a Mom and her kittens were living under our deck.
Since the weather was getting cold, we all decided to try to
capture them.
Right now we have Mom and 4 of her kittens. There are still 2 kittens to get.
We are afraid that the Mom took the other 2 and hid them somewhere else.
The 2 kittens haven't been seen today.
We are going to possible keep the Mom cat and 2 of the kittens, my Mom might take the other. If not we will adopt them out.

We hope that the other 2 kittens will appear. We usually see them in the afternoon. I hope they appear.

Yes, we did get a trap. They seemed to be to smart to go in the trap.
It is still there with some good canned food. So, if the last 2 are sleeping, when they wake, hopefully they will go in the trap and then we can reunite them with the rest of their family.

That is a good thought about the harness, but it took us over 2 days to get mama cat. She is very smart and if she got away from us, we may never get her back.
Right now, momma cat and 4 of her kittens are safe in my parents house. They are in 2 big cat carriers with blankets in with them. Momma cat is able to look through the cat carrier and see her babies.

How old are the kittens? Cats & even little kittens are pretty smart, so I'm sure they were able to find a way to stay dry...keep trying with the trap, if they're around and they get hungry enough they may still take the bait.

Let us know how they're getting along & I will keep my fingers crossed for the two escapee kittens.

The moma and the 4 kittens we got are doing fine in our basement bathroom. This room is where we usually house found cats or cats we get. It's like a nursery. Well the kittens are eating good and playing with each other. The mother cat is also eating good and still alittle cautious around us.

I was out again today for over 1hour trying to find the other 2 kittens but no luck. We even got our neighbors to look.

Wouldn't you think you could see the kittens, one is grey and the other is black and white.

The trap is still out with good food in it so I hope if they are still alive they will smell it out and go in the trap.

I am afraid because tonight its supposed to be in the low 20's temp wise.

Cats can go into heat and get pregnant when their kittens are less than one month old.

A cat will often not even look pregnant until she's ready to give birth. I recently trapped a cat who was still nursing her kittens. When I took her in to be spayed, it was found that she was pregnant with 5 kittens.

The fact that your cat is still feeding her kittens does not mean she is not pregnant, and if she was outside until recently, odds are that she is.
So unless you want another litter, act now.

Fine. I'm not the one who is going to have to deal with a possible litter.

But I must correct your misinformation, for anyone else who might be in your situation - I do know a little about this.

It is the tomcat that kills the babies and then the act is done and she has another liter.

Not true. It does not matter if a tomcat (or anything else) kills the litter. The female can come into heat and get pregnant in as little as 3 weeks after giving birth, even if she is still lactating and nursing kittens.

We have no other cats around our neighborhood.

Even if neighbours do not own intact tomcats, they will come great distances to look for a female in heat, mate with her and then leave. So not seeing tomcats does not mean there are none anywhere.

I think the original owner found out the cat was pregnant and dump the cat in our yard

She could have gotten pregnant before she was dumped in your yard. There were obviously tomcats in the area she came from.

And again, there is NO WAY to tell if a cat is pregnant early on. How she looks or feels is absolutely no indication.

We took the Momma and her kittens to our vet yesterday for
a checkup.
We have names for them now... Momma is Mystic
We have 2 boys and 2 girl kittens!
The 2 girl names are: Rasberry Blue she is a blue color kitten
and Sierria.

The 2 boy names are: Cosmo and Blaze.

They are all ok. They got all their shots that where needed.
The kittens are about 7wks old Mystic is about 2yrs old.

They are negative for feline lukemia.

And on Tuesday Mystic is going in to be spayed.

Our vet couldn't feel any babies in her.

Our vet did say that this wasn't the first litter for Mystic. She probably had a few.

Our vet told us that the babies are old enough to be separated from Momma. SO, we set up one of our greyhound dog crates and made it nice for the kittens and we are keeping Mystic in the bathroom nursery for at least half the day.

We put the kittens back with Mystic at night.

Our vet said that Mystic needs some time alone to rest. She looked worn out.

Some good news. The 2 kittens we were looking for and couldn't find. Well, we read in our local paper that there were two found kittens near a dumpster, taken in and adopted to a person who works for an area cat rescue. They mentioned the kittens colors, 1 black and white kitten, 1 grey stripped kitten.
My wife is going to call the person who got them and find out for sure, but we know that they are the ones we were looking for.

I must appalaud you for what you and your family have done.Not everyone would have done that.You save Mamma and her babies from what could have been death.And yes,now they do fix them at an early age.As early as 8 weeks.We adopted a kitted at 8 weeks and he was fixed before we could take him home.And trust me they can get pregnant even if the babies are 3 weeks.My sister is on a farm.My nephew kept bringing kittens from the barn.And mamma too.Kittens were about 4 weeks and sure enough mamma was pregnant again.Males won't kill the babies to get her in heat agin.That is for Lions.They do that.Once again.I applaud you for what you and your family did.

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